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i have become.   lax.   

in many ways.   It's been some days since this small oval shape appeared in front of me in the Resting Chair near the Feed Shed.  Where i sit.  after giving feed and often times water to Jack Flash and Nogal.  Where i sit upon walking up and around from B Garden.  to catch my breath.   it was just There.   right in front of me on the road.   Perfect.  a cocoon…or,  a perfect half of a cocoon.   an impossibly PERFECT half….as if snipped with very sharp scissors.   unnaturally so.   and it has a story that won't happen right in this moment…but i wanted to photograph it this morning and looked around for how to do this and it was the rock that Peggy McG brought me this last spring….that was over on that only piece of furniture,  Old Cowboy's drawers…

i brought it to this Morning table and set them together and it was perfect…somehow the substance of the cocoon being kin to the substance of the rock

but they were just set on this formica table and i saw the disrespect of this….how i've become lax and went to look for a piece of cloth that i might lay down to photograph things,  looking in the drawer of that only piece of furniture that holds some rolled Cloths…maybe…..i hadn't looked in a long time….

 

 

 


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the back of this is a Blue and might work….so i unrolled it and saw this.

forgotten

when did i make this?   and at what point did i roll it and  place it in the drawer?   

how it Illustrates the Goings On of these days…how it Illustrates how that Intelligence of the Universe…that i believe gave me the halved cocoon in an effort to communicate in a way i would recognize….how it is a perfect illustration of that but/and how i am on and on  so often  unavailable to SEE,  to HEAR…..,     so

it's now on the Cloth Wall.   More things thread themselves together,  more things  hummmmmmmmm,  a sound of How It Is.

connecting now,  for me,   to  the 5 minutes of Trust.

CatherinE    gemtactics.net/wordpress

there is  THUNDER outside as i type this.      Rain drops on the roof.   June.   not 

how it is here in N Cal

but how it IS…in this moment….Thunder rolls.   says…" I'm talking to you,  grace…."   and not just me,   but whoever else is willing to hear….we are Out There/Here.  

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12 responses to “lax”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The conversation rolled from CA to NM because at last, blessed rain came last night and will be here most of the coming week as monsoon season is here and thunder announced it.
    Outside, air has that wet fresh smell that I love; ground is saturated, the green of my herbs and veggies so much brighter, they stand up, filled out, happy to be wet and I spot a cherry tomato that is red, (several are getting there). Do I leave it on the plant? Well no,I pop it in my mouth- breakfast appetizer!.
    Leaves are dancing among the herbs and on the floor of the patio because most of the time here, rain dances with wind. We so desperately need the rain, long term drought here but with the rain comes the worry of flash flooding due to the many on-going fires here. Already there are evacuations due to potential for mud slides, flooding. The exchange of needed rain VS the reality of burned out land. We can take nothing for granted…

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  2. jude Avatar
    jude

    of course all i could think of first was the airport, lax, but then i think maybe just no agenda, not neglect.
    i cannot remember a lot about a lot of the making. in a way it makes it all new.
    while trusting i saw my first dragonfly of the season. there will be less mosquitoes now.

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  3. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Isn’t nature Amazing! How did that happen, such a perfect slice on a cocoon! Ha, at first I thought the rock grew a crystal! Such a beautiful cloth to have come out of it’s hibernation.

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  4. Saskia Avatar
    Saskia

    am reading ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ Robin Wall Kimmerer, she talks a lot about listening to our surroundings, reciprocity…how we need to get back to that

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  5. Jacqui Avatar
    Jacqui

    I love this Grace

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i so so love Monsoon in New Mexico…the absolute JOY of it. Unlike rain here that comes in winter with cold and is every day for those months
    Monsoon is Glorious and Elegant and Joyous as it
    rips in to days and then is gone in a SunSet
    but Earth will do what IT can and it will be different?, maybe surprising as was that storm last night..such Thunder in the Dark of night
    and the run off for New Mexico, same as has been here. To learn what is needed to save out spaces, hold soil in place. We cause it. We need to learn the remedy until we can stop Causing. Such a time of Learning
    and to have a ripe tomato
    oh…to have a ripe tomato…gives us Heart for it all

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. the Beauty of dragonfly and it’s food

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    peggy…that rock is truly Magical…i would not be at all surprised if a crystal appeared

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    reciprocity.
    reciprocity.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    thank you…i love you for loving this

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  11. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Funny Grace. I remember this cloth and it feels like it wasn’t that long ago…but who knows! I recall you talking about the elements as you worked it. xo

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  12. Faith Junaid Avatar
    Faith Junaid

    It seems to me too, like you were just working on this cloth sometime in 2022. April??
    At first the cocoon looked like some kind of growth on the rock. Then I thought it was a seedpod. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an opened cocoon in real life. Not sure I ever saw a picture before, either. It looks so soft. One doesn’t generally think of bugs needing a soft bed.
    I have made it a point to look for the goodness of rain since I moved to Oregon. And we have had a few dry winters since I’ve lived here, so it was good to have so much rain this year. But I am soooo ready for some endless sunny days. (Not the heat, though.) I miss the warm summer rains we had back east. We don’t get too many thunderstorms here. And flash floods generally aren’t good from any point of view (except possibly very long term).
    Yes, Trust is a good place to be.

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